The PSN+ Thread: 3/1 - Sonic the Hedgehog, Spyro YOTD, Pix'n Love Rush

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Here is a list of the current and upcoming offerings for PSN+. I'll update this thread every time I find out what will be coming and what is offered (every other Wednesday and Tuesday, respectively).

Newly available (3/1):

Free games:
Modnation Racers trial
Sonic the Hedgehog (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Spyro Year of the Dragon (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $5.99)
Enigmo (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Pix’n Love Rush (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $2.49)

Discounts:
Blast Factor (PS3) (PlayStation Plus price $2.00, regular price $9.99)

Themes and Avatars:
Fresh Curves Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Liquid Metal Static Theme (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $1.49)
Pocket Fighter PSN Avatar Bundle (25 avatars) ($1.99 and Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Viewtiful Joe Avatar Bundle (10 avatars) ($0.99 and Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)


Still available:

Coming down soon (3/8):
 PlayStation Move Heroes Demo (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Stacking (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $14.99)
Sky Fighter (PlayStation Plus price $2.50, regular price $4.99)
Qore February Episode 33 (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $2.99)
Pocket Fighter – Sprite Avatars (x6) (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $0.49 each)

Coming down soon (3/15):
Mortal Kombat Demo
Femme Abstraction Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Snowman Dynamic Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Chinese New Year Dynamic Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
MAG Demo
Let’s Golf – Playstation minis (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $4.99)
R.U.S.E. – Pack of the Sun (PlayStation Plus price $7.49, regular price $9.99)
Gravity Crash (PS3) (PlayStation Plus Price $5.00, regular price $9.99)
Crash Bandicoot (PlayStation Plus price $3.00, regular price $5.99)
MAG Starter Kit (PlayStation Plus price $7.50, regular price $14.99)

Free games:
Sackboy Prehistoric Moves
Yakuza 4 Demo

Discounts:
PS+ Subscribers get a $2.99 discount on every Japanese Import game (except Mega Man games), making the final price $3.00.
Wakeboarding HD with Dynamic Theme (PlayStation Plus price $4.79, regular price $5.99)
PS3 System 2 Year Protection Plan (PlayStation Plus price $44.99, regular price $59.99)

SNK NeoGeo Discounts:
NeoGeo Station PS3 Bundle Pack (PlayStation Plus price $63.99, regular price $79.99)
Alpha Mission II (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)
Art of Fighting (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)
Baseball Stars Professional (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)
Fatal Fury (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)
Fatal Fury PSP (PlayStation Plus price $5.59, regular price $6.99)
The King of Fighters '94 (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)
League Bowling (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)
Magician Lord (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)
Metal Slug (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)
Metal Slug PSP (PlayStation Plus price $5.59, regular price $6.99)
Samurai Showdown (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)
Super Sidekicks (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)

Midway Discounts:
Gauntlet II (PlayStation Plus price $2.50, regular price $4.99)
Mortal Kombat II (PlayStation Plus price $2.50, regular price $4.99)
Rampage (PlayStation Plus price $2.50, regular price $4.99)
Rampart (PlayStation Plus price $2.50, regular price $4.99)

TikGames / Creat Studios Special Discounts:
Cuboid (PlayStation Plus price $4.79, regular price $5.99)
Hamsterball (PlayStation Plus price $4.79, regular price $5.99)'
Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos (PlayStation Plus price $4.79, regular price $5.99)
Magic Orbz (PlayStation Plus price $4.79, regular price $5.99)
Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom (PlayStation Plus price $4.79, regular price $5.99)
Smash Cars (PlayStation Plus price $7.19, regular price $8.99)

TikGames / Creat Studios Special DLC:
Cuboid Bundle Pack (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $4.99)
Magic Orbz Booster Pack (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $2.99)
Magic Orbz Jungle Pack (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $2.99)
Magic Orbz Winter Pack (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $2.99)
Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom Booster Pack (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $4.99)
Smash Cars: Virus Run (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $2.99)

Themes and Avatars:
Underwater Disco Theme (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $1.49)
Rival School Avatar Bundle (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus members for $1.99)
PSN Holiday Dynamic Theme (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $2.99)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Dynamic Theme (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $2.99)
Wakeboarding HD Dynamic Theme (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $2.99) in the TikGames / Creat Studios Special section
Fat Princess: Blue Princess Avatar
Fat Princess: Pink Princess Avatar
LittleBigPlanet "Hugo" Avatar (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $0.49)
LittleBigPlanet "Marvin" Sackboy Avatar (Free for PlayStation Plus members, regular price $0.49)
Super Street Fighter IV Avatar Bundle (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus members for $4.99)
Mega Man 10 Avatar Bundle (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers for $1.99)
Sonic 4 Dynamic Theme (Free to PlayStation Plus Subscribers)
PlayStation Plus Dynamic Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Junebug Bench Static Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Ghouls and Ghost Avatar Bundle (17 avatars) (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers for $1.99)
Bionic Commando Rearmed Avatar Bundle (10 avatars) (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers for $0.99)
Devil May Cry 4 Avatar Bundle (18 avatars ) (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers for $1.99)
DarkStalker Avatar Bundle (13 avatars) (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers for $0.99)

Game Trials:
Borderlands
God of War I
God of War II
inFamous
MAG
Prototype
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Warhawk
Mass Effect 2
Assassin’s Creed II Deluxe Edition
ATV Pure


Coming soon (3/8):

Free games:
Mortal Kombat Demo (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Qore March Episode 34 – Single Episode (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $2.99)

Discounts:
PSN Gamers’ Choice Award winner: Best PS3 Game (TBD) (50% discount)
PSN Gamers’ Choice Award winner: Best PSN Exclusive Game (TBD) (50% discount)
PSN Gamers’ Choice Award winner: Best PSP Game (TBD) (50% discount)
PSN Gamers’ Choice Award winner: Best Mini (TBD) (50% discount)
Mega Man 3 (PSOne) (PlayStation Plus price $3.00, regular price $5.99)

Coming soon (3/15):

Free games:
Prince of Persia Trial
MAG Trial

Discounts:
Boom Beats PlayStation minis (PlayStation Plus price $1.50, regular price $2.99)

Themes and Avatars:
Okami Avatar Bundle (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers for $0.49)
Pocket Fighter – Sprite Avatar Bundle (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers for $1.99)
Street Fighter Avatar Bundle (Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers for $1.99)
Dragon Girl Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Virtual Fireplace (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
 
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For those people with ps+, does Stacking have an expiration date like other giveway ps+ games?
and if not, is this a glitch, is the expiration simply misleading or will stacking stay active once a ps+ sub ends?
 
[quote name='AdmrlBalls']Look at the dates listed that the games will be free for Plus members, each game gets about 4-5 weeks on the Store for you to download. This can't possibly take the place of all free PS+ content during that 6 month period.

First, a new free game is available on a bi-weekly basis, which means these Sega games are probably going to be every other "free" PS+ game along that timeline.[/QUOTE]

The way it usually works is we get a free PSN game, mini, and PS1 game in the first update of the month. Then in the second update two weeks after that, we get our second mini along with Qore and other stuff like themes and avatars.
 
[quote name='vherub']For those people with ps+, does Stacking have an expiration date like other giveway ps+ games?
and if not, is this a glitch, is the expiration simply misleading or will stacking stay active once a ps+ sub ends?[/QUOTE]

For some reason some games, even some you buy, just don't show the 'owner/expire' info. This doesn't show that.
 
[quote name='Diebythesword']For some reason some games, even some you buy, just don't show the 'owner/expire' info. This doesn't show that.[/QUOTE]

some of the games have passes listed under services (or maybe it's called licenses can't remember... it's somewhere in your account management though) instead (wipeout was this way... and the first episode of sam and max are this way... I forget which others)
 
This week's PS+ update is live:

PlayStation Plus

Full Game Trial
ModNation Racers (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
ModNation Racers is a next generation kart racer that empowers you to personalize your entire game. Shoot, boost & drift your way to the finish line both offline and online, then create your own racing experiences with the same tools used by the development team. Share or access unlimited amounts of player-created content on PSN. There is no end to the karting fun!
ESRB Rated E
File size: 9.62 GB
Featured Games

  • Sonic the Hedgehog (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
  • Spyro Year of the Dragon (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $5.99)
  • Enigmo (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
  • Pix’n Love Rush (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Featured Demo

  • PlayStation Move Heroes Demo (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
Discounted Games & DLC

  • Blast Factor (PS3) (PlayStation Plus price $2.00, regular price $9.99)
Featured Themes & Avatars

  • Fresh Curves Theme (Free and exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
  • Liquid Metal Static Theme (Free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, regular price $1.49)
  • Pocket Fighter PSN Avatar Bundle (25 avatars) ($1.99 and Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
  • Viewtiful Joe Avatar Bundle (10 avatars) ($0.99 and Exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers)
 
Free games like Spyro and Sonic make it pretty easy to get your moneys worth from a year of PSN+. Just for the record is that correct that the Modnation Racers download is over 9 gigs?
 
[quote name='bg88']Free games like Spyro and Sonic make it pretty easy to get your moneys worth from a year of PSN+. Just for the record is that correct that the Modnation Racers download is over 9 gigs?[/QUOTE]

I'm downloading it now.

Size 9846 MB

In comparison PURE trial is 4687 MB. Tomb Raider: Underworld 6149 MB


So far I have to say Plus has been a great purchase for me. I already owned at least 1/2 of the monthly "FREE" games, but all the other stuff I got, and played, was worth way over the price of a year.
 
I can pretty much agree with everyone after 2 months of Plus, I've gotten more than enough to double what i spent on the subscription of 15 months.

Though to be fair, the selection is questionable at times for my taste, but hey still 13 months to go. Somewhere in there is bound to be some diamonds i'll keep right?
 
So that's why I saw people on my friend's list playing Sonic all of a sudden :lol:.

I'll have to look into Blast Factor. $2 sounds pretty good.

The free game have been great (though Sonic is a meh for me - but I can't complain after just getting the awesome Stacking straight-up free). What I'm a little disappointed about now is the lack of discounted or free DLC. We had some good stuff early on (like the combo pack for Warhawk for free). But there has been very little since then.

I mean, not even a few half-price costume packs for the launch of LittleBigPlanet 2? Really? That seemed like a no-brainer PS+ offer to me. I have a son begging me to buy some for him but I just feel that those have to be PS+ offers at some point so I'm holding off.
 
[quote name='io']So that's why I saw people on my friend's list playing Sonic all of a sudden :lol:.

I'll have to look into Blast Factor. $2 sounds pretty good.

The free game have been great (though Sonic is a meh for me - but I can't complain after just getting the awesome Stacking straight-up free). What I'm a little disappointed about now is the lack of discounted or free DLC. We had some good stuff early on (like the combo pack for Warhawk for free). But there has been very little since then.

I mean, not even a few half-price costume packs for the launch of LittleBigPlanet 2? Really? That seemed like a no-brainer PS+ offer to me. I have a son begging me to buy some for him but I just feel that those have to be PS+ offers at some point so I'm holding off.[/QUOTE]

That's been my single biggest issue with Plus. They had advertised "add-ons" as a feature before Plus even launched, and even mentioned it in a PS Store ad a few weeks ago. It was one of the bigger reasons I signed up. I was thinking we would get older stuff like the Killzone 2 map packs or MotorStorm track packs.

Yeah, I'm getting my money's worth as it is, but it still annoys me that they are completely ignoring add-ons.
 
[quote name='MrBeatdown']That's been my single biggest issue with Plus. They had advertised "add-ons" as a feature before Plus even launched, and even mentioned it in a PS Store ad a few weeks ago. It was one of the bigger reasons I signed up. I was thinking we would get older stuff like the Killzone 2 map packs or MotorStorm track packs.

Yeah, I'm getting my money's worth as it is, but it still annoys me that they are completely ignoring add-ons.[/QUOTE]

Just to echo what you said, one of the main reasons I signed up was because we were supposed to get a free DLC pack every month and it's disappointing that they didn't follow through on that but ahhh well.
 
the 360 is the only platform that really offers good discounts on dlc. Even steam doesn't do it as well,partly because they don't have a monopoly on the content like Microsoft does.
 
And, well, the odd thing is that there has got to be lots of "old" DLC that almost no one buys any more (like those LBP custume packs). So you'd think it wouldn't cost them much to offer it, especially at a discount - that may actually spur more sales than it is getting right now. Plus Sony probably has a lot more control over that stuff than PSN games - yet they keep finding PSN games to give us for free and no DLC. Oh well, I'll keep looking ;).
 
[quote name='io']yet they keep finding PSN games to give us for free and no DLC. Oh well, I'll keep looking ;).[/QUOTE]

Diamonds i dare say, Diamonds indeed
 
Man, Sonic is not holding up for me. Especially after getting a great free game like Stacking with beautiful visuals and creative gameplay. Not really looking forward to next few months of Genesis rehacks. Hope Dead Nation gets voted in for half price next week, I'll be all over that...
 
[quote name='io']And, well, the odd thing is that there has got to be lots of "old" DLC that almost no one buys any more (like those LBP custume packs). So you'd think it wouldn't cost them much to offer it, especially at a discount - that may actually spur more sales than it is getting right now. Plus Sony probably has a lot more control over that stuff than PSN games - yet they keep finding PSN games to give us for free and no DLC. Oh well, I'll keep looking ;).[/QUOTE]

Personally I'm surprised they've offered no discount on any of the Pain or Motorstorm content. Those are pretty old and they could easily discount the pain add-on levels to half or better.
 
[quote name='Diebythesword']For some reason some games, even some you buy, just don't show the 'owner/expire' info. This doesn't show that.[/QUOTE]


I can confirm that STacking does not stay active after plus ends. My account ran out and I could not play Stacking.
 
[quote name='randomdud']I can confirm that STacking does not stay active after plus ends. My account ran out and I could not play Stacking.[/QUOTE]

Interesting. Thanks. Have you tried the PS1 games/DLC?
 
I was under the impression that anything you paid money for, you keep, even if it was discounted. Anything that was free, goes bye-bye.
 
[quote name='Diebythesword']Interesting. Thanks. Have you tried the PS1 games/DLC?[/QUOTE]

I did not, but I believe as Vader does that I cannot access them since I didn't spend money.
 
[quote name='randomdud']I did not, but I believe as Vader does that I cannot access them since I didn't spend money.[/QUOTE]

Yes...but Joystiq reported PS1 games working still and I never heard anyone say anything about the free DLC.
 
[quote name='Vader582']I was under the impression that anything you paid money for, you keep, even if it was discounted. Anything that was free, goes bye-bye.[/QUOTE]

That is the general rule although, like people have said, there are some free games that you can still play. This is likely not intentional. This doesn't happen the other way though, everything you pay for, you keep.
 
[quote name='Diebythesword']Yes...but Joystiq reported PS1 games working still and I never heard anyone say anything about the free DLC.[/QUOTE]

When you add an item to your cart you'll sometimes get some blurb that you have to 'accept', those are the items that won't be available after your subscription ends
 
[quote name='gravel']Has anyone tried Blast Factor yet?[/QUOTE]

I bought it awhile ago. It's all right, it's very arcadey in that you can't save your progress. I haven't played it too much though. Isn't there a demo?
 
Could someone confirm if Stacking is still available (until 3/15 per the OP)?

I am about to sign up for Plus, but want to make sure that I can still get Stacking for free.

Thanks!
 
[quote name='flix1']Could someone confirm if Stacking is still available (until 3/15 per the OP)?

I am about to sign up for Plus, but want to make sure that I can still get Stacking for free.

Thanks![/QUOTE]

still available!
 
[quote name='flix1']Could someone confirm if Stacking is still available (until 3/15 per the OP)?

I am about to sign up for Plus, but want to make sure that I can still get Stacking for free.

Thanks![/QUOTE]

It's coming down this Tuesday.
 
So next week PS+ gets the 50% off whichever games were voted on which is ok but there's also a timed exclusive Mortal Kombat demo which is even better.
 
[quote name='flix1']Could someone confirm if Stacking is still available (until 3/15 per the OP)?

I am about to sign up for Plus, but want to make sure that I can still get Stacking for free.

Thanks![/QUOTE]

Hmmm, maybe I should put something to make it easier to distinguish when that section is blank. However, I'm going to update it right now since the Blog posted about what's coming up.
 
Hmm, Dragon Girl theme? It's pretty funny that they keep having these themes(Argyle Girls, etc.) for free. I keep downloading them and my gf keeps getting irritated with the skanky girl themes on my PS3.
 
Mortal Kombat looks fun, looking forward to the demo.

Here's hoping Pacman is one of the 50% off games. I'm going to buy it either way, but it would be nice to save some money.
 
[quote name='ShockandAww']So next week PS+ gets the 50% off whichever games were voted on which is ok but there's also a timed exclusive Mortal Kombat demo which is even better.[/QUOTE]

hmm i might have to bite on PSN+ then. If they really make exclusive demos it's gonna make signing up for PSN+ all the more tempting. i wasn't that impressed with it until lately. Especially with the kmart deals to give out discounted $50 PSN cards, hard to pass the subscription up now the more i think about it.
 
[quote name='Donut2922']hmm i might have to bite on PSN+ then. If they really make exclusive demos it's gonna make signing up for PSN+ all the more tempting. i wasn't that impressed with it until lately. Especially with the kmart deals to give out discounted $50 PSN cards, hard to pass the subscription up now the more i think about it.[/QUOTE]

To be fair, it's really only exclusive for a week.
 
The MK demo is pretty cool. I'm hoping Dead Nation and Pacman DX end up getting the 50% discount. I don't usually buy PSN games but both of those are pretty fun.

I'm still pissed that a Genesis game was our PSN game for the month though, and it looks like that's going to be the case for the next five months too.
 
[quote name='gettinmoney662']To be fair, it's really only exclusive for a week.[/QUOTE]

Hrm good point. But still the fact if PS+ members get to play this as an exclusive over everybody else puts the PS+ service up a couple of notches in my book. For a demo, a week is good enough for me anyway.
 
Wait, what the hell? Why are we getting a MAG Full Game Trial if we've had the MAG Demo for months now? If this means that instead of being able to keep gaining experience without leveling up, I get to play for an hour with everything, I'm gonna be pissed. I better still be able to play the level-8-only one, as I'm earning tons of levels in advance of whenever I buy the game. :p
 
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